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president obama will not be taking questions. we hope that that will happen next week but in the meantime i think the white house started to notice that the republican house speaker john boehner had come out to speak about the fiscal cliff on wednesday. he's going to speak about it again today and the white house realized that the president needed to come out and stake his territory, lay the ground work for these negotiations as well. so what he's going to argue today we expect is that the american people voted on tuesday night not just for him but for the things that he has been fighting for such as allowing household income over $250,000 a year to revert to those higher clinton era tax rates. he said this is an easy and reasonable way to reduce the deficits. republicans completely disagree and speaker bone engineer said again yesterday this would hurt job creators. we got some very interesting news yesterday from the nonpartisan congressional budget office the number crunches up on capitol hill. they said allowing the bush tax
president obama will not be taking questions. we hope that that will happen next week but in the meantime i think the white house started to notice that the republican house speaker john boehner had come out to speak about the fiscal cliff on wednesday. he's going to speak about it again today and the white house realized that the president needed to come out and stake his territory, lay the ground work for these negotiations as well. so what he's going to argue today we expect is that the...
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how much is that a help to the obama team? >> well, without putting too fine a point on it you can imagine the situation in which that helps quite a lot. bill clinton having received better reviews at the democratic convention than the sitting president. bill clinton is hugely popular in the democratic base. so getting those crowds out is important because in the states they take them from the events to the polling places and you grab them and you say, come knock on doors with me this weekend. spend more time volunteering to get these votes out. so it's important that the gathering function of these events continue to happen. and with bill clinton being a big draw he's the best surrogate barack obama could have in these crucial states. >> now, bill clinton was in connecticut yesterday and he had this to say about the storm. he said we're facing a violent storm. but it's nothing compared to the storm we'll face if you don't make the right decision in this election. what about that remark? >> well it's the kind of thing you can
how much is that a help to the obama team? >> well, without putting too fine a point on it you can imagine the situation in which that helps quite a lot. bill clinton having received better reviews at the democratic convention than the sitting president. bill clinton is hugely popular in the democratic base. so getting those crowds out is important because in the states they take them from the events to the polling places and you grab them and you say, come knock on doors with me this...
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a week and a half ago obama campaign advisers said that wasn't going to happen. they now believe they have a chance. not a big chance, but a chance to eke out a vilktry. florida makes a huge difference. >> already puts them at 266. >> they already believe iowa and nevada are more or less won. via the early vote and democratic advantages they've built in and the ground game advantage as well. put those three together, that's done. they also believe they have a very good chance in new hampshire. a senior obama adviser said new hampshire for us is sort of like china town for -- we feel good about it but it leaves us a bit squeamish. we've had some bad experiences. >> tom, let's talk about ohio. that has been the focus of so much of our attention, ohio. it looks like that state is trending towards president obama. is that why we saw governor romney make a play for wisconsin, for pennsylvania, even minnesota they were in over the weekend campaigning to try and enlarge the electoral map for romney? >> right. because even if governor romney wins the big daddy, florida,
a week and a half ago obama campaign advisers said that wasn't going to happen. they now believe they have a chance. not a big chance, but a chance to eke out a vilktry. florida makes a huge difference. >> already puts them at 266. >> they already believe iowa and nevada are more or less won. via the early vote and democratic advantages they've built in and the ground game advantage as well. put those three together, that's done. they also believe they have a very good chance in new...
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whit johnson in washington, thank you. >>> president obama got a lot of attention this week when he talked about the supreme court, saying they should not strike down his health care law. so, was he talking about the law, laying out a political strategy or a little bit of both? joining us is linda greenhouse who covered the white house for nearly 30 years, a pulitzer prize winner, teaches at yale law school, author of "the u.s. supreme courts: a short introduction." good morning. >> good morning. >> what did you make of the president's comments? >> well, i think the sound bite that emerged from them can and then the meltdown the federal judge on the fifth circuit exhibited is a little exaggerated. what the president was saying, as i understand it from reading the full text, he's saying, look, republicans have been running against, quote, an activist supreme court for a generation now, and i'm asking this supreme court not to be activists and not to reach out and strike down a democratically enacted statue. >> your former colleague at "the new york times," who you know well, maureen dowd wr
whit johnson in washington, thank you. >>> president obama got a lot of attention this week when he talked about the supreme court, saying they should not strike down his health care law. so, was he talking about the law, laying out a political strategy or a little bit of both? joining us is linda greenhouse who covered the white house for nearly 30 years, a pulitzer prize winner, teaches at yale law school, author of "the u.s. supreme courts: a short introduction." good...
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. >> next week larry king will moderate a debate between third-party candidates, the first debate he's moderated since the one between kaine and abel. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. president obama and mitt romney aggressively reaching out to women voters in critical battleground states. both candidates hammered away wednesday at issues important to women, such as fair pay and funding for planned parenthood. they also said they're looking forward to one last debate. >> now as many of you know we had our second debate last night. you know i'm still trying to figure out you know, how to get the hang of this thing, debating. but we're working on it you know. we'll keep on improving as time goes on. i've got one left. >> now, i have to be honest with you, i love these debates, you know. these things are great. and i think it's interesting that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. don't you think that has time for him to finally put together a vision of what he'd do in the next four years if he were elected? i mean he's got to come up with
. >> next week larry king will moderate a debate between third-party candidates, the first debate he's moderated since the one between kaine and abel. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. president obama and mitt romney aggressively reaching out to women voters in critical battleground states. both candidates hammered away wednesday at issues important to women, such as fair pay and funding for planned parenthood. they also said they're looking forward to one...
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. >> president obama leads governor mitt romney by five points in ohio. that's the same as last week. in virginia, the president holds a two-point lead. however, his republican challenger has an edge with independent voters. and in florida, governor romney has cut the president's nine-point advantage last month to just one point. jan crawford is in tampa covering the romney campaign. jan, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. romney's been keeping a pretty low profile over the past couple days as he's been trying to maintain this delicate balance between keeping a public presence while the east coast is being battered by hurricane sandy. but now, six days to go, he is back on the campaign trail. he's got a rally here shortly. they've just opened the doors to let people in. he is looking to build that momentum, continue building momentum. as you said, our poll here in florida shows he's picked up a lot of ground with voters in this key state in the past month. romney arrived in florida tuesday night ahead of three campaign events here today. he'll
. >> president obama leads governor mitt romney by five points in ohio. that's the same as last week. in virginia, the president holds a two-point lead. however, his republican challenger has an edge with independent voters. and in florida, governor romney has cut the president's nine-point advantage last month to just one point. jan crawford is in tampa covering the romney campaign. jan, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. romney's been keeping a pretty low profile over...
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the daily gallup poll tracking registered vote toers showing president obama and mitt romney tied. today as jan crawford reports romney will focus on foreign policy, he'll call for the united states to take a more forceful role in the middle east. >> reporter: governor romney will be giving a major foreign policy speech at the virginia military institute. he has tough words for the president suggesting his leadership on issues of foreign policy has bean failure, weak and passive and romney is calling for a new course, especially in the middle east. but before romney even takes this stage the president is out with a new ad, mocking his foreign trip over the summer and saying romney has already failed the commander-in-chief test. now on issues of foreign policy there's a new poll out this morning from george washington university and politico. it gives the president the edge on foreign policy, 50% to romney's 44% but this poll and another poll from gallup this morning shows this race is a dead heat. politico and george washington poll gives romney the edge on issues like the economy,
the daily gallup poll tracking registered vote toers showing president obama and mitt romney tied. today as jan crawford reports romney will focus on foreign policy, he'll call for the united states to take a more forceful role in the middle east. >> reporter: governor romney will be giving a major foreign policy speech at the virginia military institute. he has tough words for the president suggesting his leadership on issues of foreign policy has bean failure, weak and passive and...
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for the first time in weeks president obama reported genuine progress to averting some part of the so-called fiscal cliff. >> i'm modestly in agreement we'll achieve. >> they're now chasing a much smaller deal than originally sought. the final product if there is one will not include trillions in debt reduction or federal spending or tax code reform. it won't even include across the board spending cuts. it will focus on tax rates and a few spending items. >> that's the bearare minimum we should be able to get done. >> sidelined for now. house speaker john boehner. as they left they sounded like they were closing in on a compromise. >> think it was a very positive meeting. there was not a lot of hilarity in the meeting. everyone knows how important it is. >> we'll be working hard to try to see if we can get there in the next 24 hours, and so i'm hopeful and optimistic. >> the president said the american public is getting frustrated and losing patience with these last-minute negotiations. he says the least congress can do is protect most american tax pairs from rising tax rates due to take eff
for the first time in weeks president obama reported genuine progress to averting some part of the so-called fiscal cliff. >> i'm modestly in agreement we'll achieve. >> they're now chasing a much smaller deal than originally sought. the final product if there is one will not include trillions in debt reduction or federal spending or tax code reform. it won't even include across the board spending cuts. it will focus on tax rates and a few spending items. >> that's the bearare...
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by the end of the week, the obama people think it's going to really begin to resonate. if it does, they'll continue this. and if it doesn't, they'll dial it back. that's just how it is in american politics today, but i mean excuse me for trying to see the bright side. we saw this, charlie. we saw the republicans roundly denounce the plan they had to launch this race-baiting campaign to try to tie it once again to jeremiah wright. now we're seeing people on the democratic sight denouncing this saying, wait a minute, this has gone too far. but this is the era of negative politics and it's gone too far. >> and we've heard from both sides it's going to continue. what about the concern over whether or not this is a fine line for the obama campaign because in some ways it could be attacking the capitalism. >> well, again, this is about where they think they can hurt the other side. they're going to continue do this. have they gone across the line? they'll find out and make their own conclusions later in the week after they've polled. if they think they've got something that c
by the end of the week, the obama people think it's going to really begin to resonate. if it does, they'll continue this. and if it doesn't, they'll dial it back. that's just how it is in american politics today, but i mean excuse me for trying to see the bright side. we saw this, charlie. we saw the republicans roundly denounce the plan they had to launch this race-baiting campaign to try to tie it once again to jeremiah wright. now we're seeing people on the democratic sight denouncing this...
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being obama rallies this week too, he still has plenty of support. if this race feels tied in every possible way, the enthusiasm in rallies feels tied too. >> what do you notice with conversations from insiders in terms of where they may be nervous, maybe they say one thing but a word about something else? >> reporter: here's the tone difference, the romney people feel they are on the march. they feel it's particularly in a state like ohio, they feel things are getting better. they are moving. they are taking advantage of good opportunities and the candidate feels buoyant. in the obama campaign, it's more pointing to the quality of their sand bags against this encroaching assault, and you can see it in the public too with the president putting out a 20-page policy program. that's a reaction from a charge from the romney campaign. the women supporters, also a defensive move. doesn't mean the president is going to move, means romney is on the march and they are there at the barricades. >> if mitt romney is to win the presidency, he has to win other bat
being obama rallies this week too, he still has plenty of support. if this race feels tied in every possible way, the enthusiasm in rallies feels tied too. >> what do you notice with conversations from insiders in terms of where they may be nervous, maybe they say one thing but a word about something else? >> reporter: here's the tone difference, the romney people feel they are on the march. they feel it's particularly in a state like ohio, they feel things are getting better. they...
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will call florida probably for obama looking at the numbers right now. and life will go on and it's short of a disorganized way as it always does. >> whoa you're not writing your playing golf or fishing or what are you doing? usually fishing. i don't play much golf. i'm usually hiding out somewhere. there's still enough beautiful places in florida that you can get away from some of this craziness. we have beautiful weather today and a lot of people living up your way wish they were here. >> carl hiassen great to see you. >> humor is in tact. >> samoa deling if mitt romney won the same percentage of the hispanic vote as george w. bush, obviously he would be president of the united states. >> last night's nor'easter was part two of a one-two punch. we'll ask the ceo of cesar's how atlantic city and the >>> just because obama won the blue states up here, he's the president of all of them now? look romney won all that red stuff. why don't we elect our president on square footage. romney won big states, whole damn south, louisiana. but, but here's the deal. o
will call florida probably for obama looking at the numbers right now. and life will go on and it's short of a disorganized way as it always does. >> whoa you're not writing your playing golf or fishing or what are you doing? usually fishing. i don't play much golf. i'm usually hiding out somewhere. there's still enough beautiful places in florida that you can get away from some of this craziness. we have beautiful weather today and a lot of people living up your way wish they were here....
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demeans the office he holds.ght >> romney bought companies, drowned them in debt.weeks, >> reporter: for weeks, the paign obama campaign and its supporters have been attacking issue, romney on this issue, spending dollars millions of dollars on ads in swing states where voters have have suf suffered from the outsourcing of jobs.working. an attack, they believe, is working. the romney campaign responded thur thursday with an ad of its own. >> the obama outsourcing ng attacks, misleading, unfair, and untrue. when a president doesn't tell the truth, how can we trust him to lead? >> reporter: the romney campaign has been fighting back. this morning they hit at the president's answer to charlie when he said that the biggest mistake of his first couple of years was not getting his story across. romney campaign people says it shows that he is out of touch with the struggles of the middle class. and they also put out a new ad this morning saying that -- holding the president, rather as a candidate in 2008 deploying scare tactics and saying that we expect more from a president. erica, lee? >> cbs news
demeans the office he holds.ght >> romney bought companies, drowned them in debt.weeks, >> reporter: for weeks, the paign obama campaign and its supporters have been attacking issue, romney on this issue, spending dollars millions of dollars on ads in swing states where voters have have suf suffered from the outsourcing of jobs.working. an attack, they believe, is working. the romney campaign responded thur thursday with an ad of its own. >> the obama outsourcing ng attacks,...
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president obama exercises six days a week. 45 minutes on the treadmill, some weight training and shoots hoops when he can. three times a week governor romney rides a stationary bike and works the elliptical machine. paul ryan is the fitness of all. >> he's in good shape. >> it's like running a marathon. they have to train for it. they have to prepare mentally for it. they have to have a pretty good schedule about timing rest. >> reporter: both candidates watch their diets. governor romney doesn't drink challenge or caffeinated drinks and features peanut butter and honey sandwiches. with encouragement from the first lady the president quit smoking and ad here's to a balanced diet and snacks on trail mix. but campaign stops can often spell trouble. >> there's food every where so the tempbtation is not to overeat. a lot of times they forget tote because they are busy. >> reporter: despite the negative health implications of vying to be leader of the free world the good doctor said we shouldn't feel that sorry for them. >> what's ironic even though they look like they age before your eyes t
president obama exercises six days a week. 45 minutes on the treadmill, some weight training and shoots hoops when he can. three times a week governor romney rides a stationary bike and works the elliptical machine. paul ryan is the fitness of all. >> he's in good shape. >> it's like running a marathon. they have to train for it. they have to prepare mentally for it. they have to have a pretty good schedule about timing rest. >> reporter: both candidates watch their diets....
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an interview with michelle obama. >> the first part of that interview. demands and pressures of her job. >> i have talked to every first lady that i have been able to make contact with. it's almost all of them that are living, and, you know, they all come into this office, hoping to make a lasting impression on the country, and i don't think i'm any different. >> i understand that what the job means to you, and what an honor and privilege it is. but i also think there has to be times that make be frustrating to you, that may make you angry. you do have days like that? >> oh, definitely, definitely. what i have learned is how i have to cope with it. sometimes i just have -- and usually it's the opposite of engaging. you know, it's usually disengaging. there are some things that i just don't need to know. you know, sometimes i cut myself off from the media completely. >> i want to know everything. you operate sometimes, i just don't need to know that. >> for my own sanity. i just need to turn it off. if i want to be happy in this job. >> are you happy in t
an interview with michelle obama. >> the first part of that interview. demands and pressures of her job. >> i have talked to every first lady that i have been able to make contact with. it's almost all of them that are living, and, you know, they all come into this office, hoping to make a lasting impression on the country, and i don't think i'm any different. >> i understand that what the job means to you, and what an honor and privilege it is. but i also think there has to...
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for the second time in two weeks, the obama campaign is on the offensive. they're driving the business practices and financial records of romney and keeping it off the economy. the campaign has a tough new ad and allies of the white house have been all over television demanding that romney release more than just two years of his income tax records. >> romney campaign isn't stupid. they have decided it is better to get a takt on lack of transparency and accountability versus telling you what's in the taxes. >> republicans have joined the chorus of democrats calling on romney to release more tax returns. >> he should release the tax returns tomorrow. it's crazy. release six, eight, ten years. take the hit for a day or two. >> there's obviously something there. if there was nothing there, he would say have at it. >> they want him to release more tax records to make it go away. they want to talk about loopholes that romney may have used to lessen his tax burden. >> oh, beautiful for spacious skies ♪ >> romney's already public financial information is providin
for the second time in two weeks, the obama campaign is on the offensive. they're driving the business practices and financial records of romney and keeping it off the economy. the campaign has a tough new ad and allies of the white house have been all over television demanding that romney release more than just two years of his income tax records. >> romney campaign isn't stupid. they have decided it is better to get a takt on lack of transparency and accountability versus telling you...
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>> well, obama care covers pre-existing conditions. >> well for weeks now governor mitt romney has told voters president obama has no agenda for a second term. bri douglas bringly interviews president obama in the new edition of rolling stone magazine. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> what did you find? >> well, i interviewed him october 11th, shortly after denver. he was very buoyant. it's amazing to go into the oval office and turn on the tape recorder and ask anything you want to ask. he's starting to play to the base heart and will use the overturning of roe v. wade as a possible incentive to make sure he keeps women on his side. it's been a year of women in '12 and pushing that hard. >> what will he do in the next four years if he wins. do you have some firm sense of what he wants to do, what is his great ambition? >> what he hasn't mentioned or never came up in the debates is climate change and how freakish the weather has been. he talked about a green grid of wind and solar and how to get a new energy infrastructure. i think in the second term he'll push for that hard. it wil
>> well, obama care covers pre-existing conditions. >> well for weeks now governor mitt romney has told voters president obama has no agenda for a second term. bri douglas bringly interviews president obama in the new edition of rolling stone magazine. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> what did you find? >> well, i interviewed him october 11th, shortly after denver. he was very buoyant. it's amazing to go into the oval office and turn on the tape recorder and...
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on monday, senior adviser to the obama campaign david axelrod will be here in studio 57. we'll talk about the president's week and what we can expect in the presidential campaign. that's ahead on monday when we see you at 7:00. >>> also tune in next week on "cbs this morning saturday." oil power and ten-gallon hats. we'll speak with j.r. ewing, sue ellen and the new cast of "dallas." have a great weekend, everybody. >> here's shawn colvin. "sunny came home." ♪ sunny came home to her favorite room ♪ ♪ sunny sat down in the kitchen ♪ ♪ she opened a book and a box of tools ♪ ♪ sunny came home with a mission ♪ ♪ she says days go by i'm hypnotized ♪ ♪ i'm walking on a wire ♪ i close my eyes and fly out of my mind into the fire ♪ ♪ sunny came home with a list of names ♪ ♪ she didn't believe in transcend ence ♪ ♪ time for a few small repairs she said ♪ ♪ sunny came home with a vengeance ♪ ♪ she says day go by i don't know why ♪ ♪ i'm walking on a wire ♪ i close my eyes and fly out of my mind into the fire ♪ ♪ get the kids and
on monday, senior adviser to the obama campaign david axelrod will be here in studio 57. we'll talk about the president's week and what we can expect in the presidential campaign. that's ahead on monday when we see you at 7:00. >>> also tune in next week on "cbs this morning saturday." oil power and ten-gallon hats. we'll speak with j.r. ewing, sue ellen and the new cast of "dallas." have a great weekend, everybody. >> here's shawn colvin. "sunny came...
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president obama and other world leaders go to mexico next week for the annual g-20 summit after the greek election we reported on earlier. >>> political scientist and author ian bremer is here. he has a book, every nation for itself, winners and losers in a g-0 world. he joins us now. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. erica. >> some people say we may very well in asia -- in europe be approaching a kind of lehman brothers moment with those consequences. when lehman failed, the financial system almost collapsed. >> lehman was more of a surprise. we've been expecting this european crisis. the markets see an economic crisis. they want it fixed. obama sees an economic crisis. he wants it fixed because it's affecting the united states. but the germans and the europeans see the economic crisis and they want to fix both at the same time. that means you must use the economic pressure to get the political lead toers do things they otherwise would not do. it creates more pain and danger, but it does make it more likely that you don't ultimately waste crisis. >> what's going to come out of the greek el
president obama and other world leaders go to mexico next week for the annual g-20 summit after the greek election we reported on earlier. >>> political scientist and author ian bremer is here. he has a book, every nation for itself, winners and losers in a g-0 world. he joins us now. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. erica. >> some people say we may very well in asia -- in europe be approaching a kind of lehman brothers moment with those consequences. when lehman failed, the...
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his staff which demeans the office he holds. >> romney bought companies, drowned them in debt. >> for weeks, the obama campaign and its supporters have been attacking romney on this issue, spending millions of dollars on ads in swing states where voters have suffered from the outsourcing of jobs a tactic they believe is working. romney campaign responded thursday with an ad of its own. >> the obama outsourcing attacks, misleading unfair and untrue. when a president doesn't tell the truth, how can we trust him to lead? >> this is a tough one for the romney campaign. they've been fighting back. they called the charge a new low. they've got a new ad out this morning that quotes candidate obama in 2008 as deploring scare tactics and says "we expect more from a president." but the obama campaign is doubling down coupling this with renewed demands that romney release years of tax returns, multiple years instead of just the one year he's provided. lee? >> bill plante at the white house this morning. i'll take it thanks bill. >> political director john dickerson is with us now. obviously both sides
his staff which demeans the office he holds. >> romney bought companies, drowned them in debt. >> for weeks, the obama campaign and its supporters have been attacking romney on this issue, spending millions of dollars on ads in swing states where voters have suffered from the outsourcing of jobs a tactic they believe is working. romney campaign responded thursday with an ad of its own. >> the obama outsourcing attacks, misleading unfair and untrue. when a president doesn't...
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i can't always say the same. >> this week it's the vice presidential candidates' turn to face off. >> is there anything more exciting than joe biden thinking it's up to him to get the lead back? >> relief may be just days away for california thrivers suffering through the highest gasoline prices in the nation. >> they're keeping tired old grannies like me at home. >> there are more than 91 cases of fungal meningitis. the outbreak spanning nine states has killed at least seven people. >>> a wild brawl between two separate wedding parties ends with one man dead and four people under arrest. >> did they just hit the bride? >>> liftoff. a new era in space flight. the first commercial flight into space bound for the international space station. >>> at talladega super speedway, a 25 car pileup. believe it or not, there were no injuries. >>> drew brees broke the record. touchdown passes in 48 consecutive games. >> there it is! >> all that -- >> yankees are going to oakland up two games to none. >> and all that matters. >> he spent 90 minutes trying to undo two years of campaigning on that st
i can't always say the same. >> this week it's the vice presidential candidates' turn to face off. >> is there anything more exciting than joe biden thinking it's up to him to get the lead back? >> relief may be just days away for california thrivers suffering through the highest gasoline prices in the nation. >> they're keeping tired old grannies like me at home. >> there are more than 91 cases of fungal meningitis. the outbreak spanning nine states has killed at...
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a week to forget for the obama administration, from wisconsin to fund-raising to supporters going rogue. we'll ask bob schieffer if democrats are now getting worried. >>> and i'm gayle king. he got his chance and he's making the most of it. how brian banks is one step closer to going from prison to the nfl playing field. >>> and when i see you at 8:00, the one and only neil patrick harris. >>> first, as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >> i'm just telling you, it's palpable. the american people are disgusted and outraged. >> congress blasts the tsa. >> criticizing it for being bloated, inefficient and unprofessional. >> we are not going to have 100% customer satisfaction. >> talking about whether the tsa is too rude. yes, too rude. >> you just got to use common sense. people are going to say, they're patting down beyonce. she's not going to blow a plane up. >> parts of wyoming and colorado are recovering from a powerful line of storms that triggered up to ten tornadoes. >> graduation day ends with a bang at a school in new jers
a week to forget for the obama administration, from wisconsin to fund-raising to supporters going rogue. we'll ask bob schieffer if democrats are now getting worried. >>> and i'm gayle king. he got his chance and he's making the most of it. how brian banks is one step closer to going from prison to the nfl playing field. >>> and when i see you at 8:00, the one and only neil patrick harris. >>> first, as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's "eye...
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. >> reporter: in the past two weeks the obama campaign rolled out several attacks on romney in his time at the private equity firm bain capital. >> he's running for president and if he's going to run the country the way he ran our business, i wouldn't want him there. >> reporter: so far it's not working. instead of a bump in politics opinion for the president, recent polls show romney's approval ratings are on the rise and sharply so in the key swing state of florida. with the attacks failing to resonate, the obama campaign is hitting even harder. in california last night, the president turned up the volume with attacks that sounded almost personal and placed himself on the side of regular americans. >> i think he's drawn the wrong thing on experience. he seems to believe that if ceos and wealthy investors like him are getting rich, that the rest of us automatically do too. >> there's a new nbc poll out showing the president narrowly leading in three key swing states. he slipped below 50% and romney picked up a lot of ground to really tighten that gap. as the president himself said yest
. >> reporter: in the past two weeks the obama campaign rolled out several attacks on romney in his time at the private equity firm bain capital. >> he's running for president and if he's going to run the country the way he ran our business, i wouldn't want him there. >> reporter: so far it's not working. instead of a bump in politics opinion for the president, recent polls show romney's approval ratings are on the rise and sharply so in the key swing state of florida. with...
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president obama and new jersey governor will likely be a week before most power is restored. some areas -- ost people back just yet. charlie, norah, gayle. >> one of the most striking image from the storm is that damaged crane still dangling high over the streets of manhattan. senior correspondent john miller spoke with two new york city engineers who had to climb up there to find out just how dangerous the situation is. >> reporter: during the storm that snapped the boom off the crane with winds gusting through the 72 story construction site and swinging the hanging boom back and forth, two new york city building department's engineers had to get to the top of the building and answer the question, would the boom hold or come crashing down? for most of the long climb, the only way up was the stairs. >> i've never heard anything as loud as wind howling in my life as we got to the 48th floor. you have to apply so much pressure to open the door. i was with him. we got into the hallway. and you could almost get sucked right now. hallway and it can get right out. >> they had to ch
president obama and new jersey governor will likely be a week before most power is restored. some areas -- ost people back just yet. charlie, norah, gayle. >> one of the most striking image from the storm is that damaged crane still dangling high over the streets of manhattan. senior correspondent john miller spoke with two new york city engineers who had to climb up there to find out just how dangerous the situation is. >> reporter: during the storm that snapped the boom off the...
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. >>> president obama is hosting the leaders of the group of eight industrialized nations at camp david, maryland. topping today's agenda, europe's deepening economic issues. >>> in chicago this morning, three men arrested earlier this week are now facing terrorism charges linked to that nato session. police accused them of trying to make molotov cocktails. >>> a terminal evacuated at ft. lauderdale airport in florida has been reopened this morning. it was closed down friday after an unknown chemical seeped into the air and sick sickened five people. officials say it appears an aerosol can exploded. >>> the flame arrived in the u.s. yesterday aboard a flight from greece and david beckham had the honor of lighting the torch in a ceremonial cauldron. the relay will end in london on july 27th for the opening day of the games. >>> it is now 19 minutes past the hour. lonnie quinn -- good morning. >> good morning, guys. good morning, everybody. let's get right to this beautiful picture behind me. right there, empire state building. over here, the chrysler building. beautiful shot of the sky a
. >>> president obama is hosting the leaders of the group of eight industrialized nations at camp david, maryland. topping today's agenda, europe's deepening economic issues. >>> in chicago this morning, three men arrested earlier this week are now facing terrorism charges linked to that nato session. police accused them of trying to make molotov cocktails. >>> a terminal evacuated at ft. lauderdale airport in florida has been reopened this morning. it was closed down...
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t >> reporter: the president begins making his case this week. what's different this time is that administration officials are already suggesting to congress that mr. obama is willing to let the deadline pass, let tax rates go up, and spending be cut if he can't get the deal he wants. norah, charlie? >> wow. bill plante in washington, thank you. >>> later this morning we'll ask conservative activist grover norquist if republicans are backing away from his no tax increase pledge. >>> two weeks ago today superstorm sandy battered the northeast. more than 100,000 homes and businesses still have no power. most of them are on new york's long island. and the governor of new york is now calling for an investigation as mark strassmann reports from brooklyn. residents are angry at the lack of answers. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. most hard hit areas have come a long way in the last couple of weeks. not garrison beach, brooklyn. here most people are still waiting for the power to come back on and for the insurance inspector to show up. for them
t >> reporter: the president begins making his case this week. what's different this time is that administration officials are already suggesting to congress that mr. obama is willing to let the deadline pass, let tax rates go up, and spending be cut if he can't get the deal he wants. norah, charlie? >> wow. bill plante in washington, thank you. >>> later this morning we'll ask conservative activist grover norquist if republicans are backing away from his no tax increase...
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. >>> last week the new york times said president obama personally decides when to attack. it was one of the recent stories based on top secret information. on tuesday an angry republican senator john mccain called for an investigation of these intelligence leaks. >> such disclosures can only undermine simeon going or future operations. and in this sense, it compromises our national security. for this reason, regardless of how politically useful these leaks may have been to the president, they have to stop. >> senator mccain is on capitol hill this morning. good morning, senator. >> good morning, charlie. >> tell me specifically what it is about these leaks that you think compromise national security. >> well, two of the highest priorities that we have as far as national security is concerned is the issue of the iranian nuclear build -- the attempts of iran to acquire nuclear weapons. and the other, of course, is the issue of drones, which are one of the key elements, as you just described in the previous story, and how we will keep al qaeda down. by the way, i take a littl
. >>> last week the new york times said president obama personally decides when to attack. it was one of the recent stories based on top secret information. on tuesday an angry republican senator john mccain called for an investigation of these intelligence leaks. >> such disclosures can only undermine simeon going or future operations. and in this sense, it compromises our national security. for this reason, regardless of how politically useful these leaks may have been to the...
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. >> he recently headlined eight fundraisers in one week. ticket can cost upwards of $35,000. the money split between his presidential campaign and other democrats. watchdogs question whether this high priced access unfairly influences politicians. nine of the key largo congressman are on the committee that regulates banks. we didn't get the guest list but it includes at least one bank lobbyist. we showed lindsay video of congressman sessions whose chairman of the national republican committee. >> unless you can guarantee me that president obama and nancy pelosi and democrat super pacs are going to disarm and not spend money against republican candidates in the fall, we'll do everything we can to have the resources necessary to compete. >> the republicans refuse to give us the donor guest list for the weekend but at the end of march, the end of the month they have to disclose all of that to the federal election commission. democrats also disclose their donors regularly under election law. charlie and erica? >> sharyl, thank you. >>> one of a
. >> he recently headlined eight fundraisers in one week. ticket can cost upwards of $35,000. the money split between his presidential campaign and other democrats. watchdogs question whether this high priced access unfairly influences politicians. nine of the key largo congressman are on the committee that regulates banks. we didn't get the guest list but it includes at least one bank lobbyist. we showed lindsay video of congressman sessions whose chairman of the national republican...
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just start ad new season last week after a world twour tour we new kids on the block. remember them? see who you meet in our green room. during commercial break he was taking down the number he wants to go swimming with the sharks. >> yeah. it's really true. these guys were here and you ask these questions. how do they do it? nobody knows anything about sharks. i watch "shark week" every year. it's fascinating. they invited notice go on the boat. i'm like yes. >> they invited you after you said i want to go. i want to go. >> i wasn't shy. >> let's go back in time to new kids on the block. in the new book out today, you said that you were like the kid that got the golden ticket in the contest hadn't started. you were 4 going on 15. >> when i met our soon music producer as a kid who was known in boston from producing the band new edition. >> nice hair, donnie. >> thank you. i had a lot of it back then. it was sort of like -- i grew up sort of as a dreamer. i was on the school bus with other members in boston. it was known as a racist city or was because of the bussing co
just start ad new season last week after a world twour tour we new kids on the block. remember them? see who you meet in our green room. during commercial break he was taking down the number he wants to go swimming with the sharks. >> yeah. it's really true. these guys were here and you ask these questions. how do they do it? nobody knows anything about sharks. i watch "shark week" every year. it's fascinating. they invited notice go on the boat. i'm like yes. >> they...
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while republicans immediately dismissed the tax plan as a tax hike on job creators in a week economy. both sides are digging in here. even though about 98% of americans would fare just about the same. >>> president obama officially called on congress monday to extend the low bush era tax cuts for one more year. many members believe that responsibility comes from the top down, so that if we that that will somehow unleash jobs and economic growth. >> i disagree. i think they're wrong. >> that the president was wrong for wanting -- no taxes are going up on anybody. at the lower end of the income spectrum or -- households. >> households between $500,000 and $1 million a year. under the president's proposal. >> the republicans' plan adds about $700 billion more than the president's plan does. is it worth that much money? >> i think there's a real dispute as to how much you look at the growth potential. if you really allow people to keep more of their hard-earned money, we'll see more confidence come back into the economy. >> the white house ups the ante, saying that the president won't sig
while republicans immediately dismissed the tax plan as a tax hike on job creators in a week economy. both sides are digging in here. even though about 98% of americans would fare just about the same. >>> president obama officially called on congress monday to extend the low bush era tax cuts for one more year. many members believe that responsibility comes from the top down, so that if we that that will somehow unleash jobs and economic growth. >> i disagree. i think they're...
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week's debate. >>> north korea saying the u.s. is within striking distance of its missiles. >>> felix baumgartner hopes to become the first man to break the sound barrier in a freefall. >> at the end of the day if something goes wrong i have to pay for it. >>> feeling no pain. >>> crashing his car into a store. one man got hurt. >> no, this is not a game of tag. this man is actually trying to get away from a very angry stag in a london park. >>> all that -- >> and the series is tied at a game a piece. game over. cardinals even the series. >> last movie you cried at? >> with arnold. very talented. >> sexiest woman alive. >> here's hoping for next year. >>> 23 million people unemployed. when they saw the 7.8, every economist was shocked, everybody. >> 7.8% unemployment [ bleep ] everybody. >> 7.8% unemployment [ bleep ] recipe. captioning funded by cbs >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." new polls are showing a bigger bounce for governor mitt romney after last week's presidential debate. pew research poll shows romney ahead of presid
week's debate. >>> north korea saying the u.s. is within striking distance of its missiles. >>> felix baumgartner hopes to become the first man to break the sound barrier in a freefall. >> at the end of the day if something goes wrong i have to pay for it. >>> feeling no pain. >>> crashing his car into a store. one man got hurt. >> no, this is not a game of tag. this man is actually trying to get away from a very angry stag in a london park....
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the poll this week by cbs news/"new york times" found each with support from 46% of registered voters. so, a race this close will likely boil down to 11 battleground states. with us from washington is cbs news political director john dickerson. good morning. always good to see you, sir. >> good morning, jeff. >> one of the reasons we're taking about these battleground states is because the economy is so tenuous in some of these states. which candidate right now is in better shape when it comes to the economy? >> well, if you look at all of the polls, different ways you can look at that. if it's just a referendum on president obama, thumbs up or down, the president's in bad shape. people disapprove of his handling of the economy more than they approve of it. then if you look at which candidate is better to handle the question of the economy and jobs, it's closer there across the polls. although romney-m has a bit of an edge. in our poll, folks look at both candidates the same, although when you ask them who will do -- who will hurt your economic situation more, president obama comes ou
the poll this week by cbs news/"new york times" found each with support from 46% of registered voters. so, a race this close will likely boil down to 11 battleground states. with us from washington is cbs news political director john dickerson. good morning. always good to see you, sir. >> good morning, jeff. >> one of the reasons we're taking about these battleground states is because the economy is so tenuous in some of these states. which candidate right now is in...
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convention. >>> the man suspected of making a threat against president obama is set to make a court appearance this afternoon. he pointed a shotgun at agents. >>> in new york city, something went wrong during underground blasting at a subway construction project. there were no injuries. >>> a humpback whale made an appearance off the california coast. surprising boaters and people on paddle boards. >>> britain's prince harry has done crazy things before, but this time he's outdone himself, naked partying in las vegas. >>> one to third, out there, out at second, a triple play! >> just a little nervous, probably? >> yeah, first time in new york city. >> all of that matters. >> well, roger clemens is returning to baseball. the seventh-time cy young award winner will take the mound for the sugar land skeeters at the age of 50. >> today he tested positive for activia. >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." todd akin says he will not give up his campaign for a u.s. senate seat in missouri. >>> on tuesday, governor mitt romney joined the leadership of the republican party asking akin to withdr
convention. >>> the man suspected of making a threat against president obama is set to make a court appearance this afternoon. he pointed a shotgun at agents. >>> in new york city, something went wrong during underground blasting at a subway construction project. there were no injuries. >>> a humpback whale made an appearance off the california coast. surprising boaters and people on paddle boards. >>> britain's prince harry has done crazy things before, but...
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more men plan to vote for mitt romney and more women for president obama. frank luntz held two focus groups in ohio this week. >> who's undecided in a whole bumpk of you. why does mitt romney lag in ohio? >> i think it's a bunch of hard-working people. it's manufacturing. everybody gets up, they go to work. romney, i think they look at him like a boss, goit who's there. obama, i think, well, you can kind of sit down, talk to the guy. you know, one-on-one. >> i think part of it is, you know, since governor turned things around, obama is getting part of the credit for ohio. ohio is only at 7% unemployment. what he's done to turn the state around is, unfortunately, giving credit to the president. >> i think it's the auto industry, what obama did and stood behind the workers in the auto union. >> the unions in ohio is why obama's strong right now. >> show me by hand, how many of you voted for him in 2008? how many of you are definitely voting for him in 2012? what the hell happened? >> the promises weren't met. what we got is not what we thought we were going t
more men plan to vote for mitt romney and more women for president obama. frank luntz held two focus groups in ohio this week. >> who's undecided in a whole bumpk of you. why does mitt romney lag in ohio? >> i think it's a bunch of hard-working people. it's manufacturing. everybody gets up, they go to work. romney, i think they look at him like a boss, goit who's there. obama, i think, well, you can kind of sit down, talk to the guy. you know, one-on-one. >> i think part of it...